It sounds like the plot to a campy summer horror film, but according to the Seattle Times, ten sheriff’s deputies stranded themselves in the wilderness after fighting tooth and nail to remove 3000 marijuana plants growing on the side of Dog Mountain on Saturday night.

With some of them exhausted and dehydrated, the group decided to spend the night in the wilderness rather than hike out of the narrow gorge, said Skamania County Undersheriff Dave Cox. All but one of the 10 sheriff’s deputies had been rescued by early this afternoon.

It seems that, ill-prepared for a full day’s battle in the war on drugs, the deputies overworked themselves and didn’t properly hydrate, spending the night rather than risk braving a narrow trail in the dark. This led to their rescue by several search and rescue groups, which worked to bring them off the mountain and transported one injured deputy to the hospital.

Our tax dollars hard at work there, fighting evil plants, and then mounting a massive rescue for the beleaguered soldiers, all to save citizens from a drug which is actually considerably less dangerous than hiking a narrow gorge in the dark.